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Miniature Channel is a Japanese YouTube channel devoted to cook edible food using cute miniature kitchen supplies. There are many videos, they make curry, tajine, eggs and bacon, and of course Japanese food. Here are some of their best Japanese miniature dishes.

Video: Poking fun at passed-out drunk people is a global thing, but Japanese bar chain Yaocho took the joke to a different level. The sleeping drunks were framed inside a square of white tape and turned into a PSA billboard with the hashtag #nomisugi — too drunk — written on it.

For the same baffling reasons they do many other things, the Japanese have been competing in synchronised team precision walking since 1966. They call it Shuudan Koudou and, as you can imagine, they do it perfectly well and it looks perfectly crazy.

Go ahead and ask Siri what languages she speaks. Unlike a few weeks ago, her reply will now include Japanese. We mentioned that extra languages were going to be coming to the app soon — looks like Japanese will be the first to arrive.

Handy robots are like the cute puppies of the world. No-one wants a stationery 'bot, as much as they don't want one of these. *shudder* Surely the golden retriever of the robot world is one that actually does household chores.

This reporter films his journey into the evacuation zone around Japan's troubled Fukushima nuclear plant. Normally crowded streets are empty but for a pack of dogs and a few flat-bed trucks carrying unknown cargo. A Geiger counter measures extremely high radiation.

Sega has installed toilet games in bars and arcades across Tokyo. It's called Toylet and games include measuring volume of urine, measuring power of stream, wiping a wall clean of graffiti and even controlling wind to lift a girl's skirt up.

Andreas Gefeller, a photographer, took a series of pictures that show the ridiculously tangled telephone wires on the streets of Japan. It's jarring how chaotic the wires look when they're all you focus on.

I've never thought about this before, but when your hands are tied up and you need to hit the button to call the elevator, isn't it smarter to kick the button instead of elbowing it? Those clever Japanese!

Kura, a sushi chain, focuses on efficiency and turning a profit. So much so that they've eschewed traditional sushi chefs for sushi robots, a large staff of waiters for conveyor belts and restaurant managers for a control centre with video link.

Gizmodo men. Looking for something "different" in your life? The homemade Fleshlight with Nanako Matsushima's face stuck to it just not doing it for you anymore? Watching Japanese girls apologise or say "I love you" turn you on? Simultaneously?

This Japan-nly NTT Docomo Melty Chocolate phone is ridiculous. It's a working phone—it has 8-megapixel camera, digital TV tuner, Bluetooth and such—but the menus are designed to look like chocolate, and the outside looks like chocolate.

Well, isn't this heartwarming and adorable. Japanese band Sour had fans use webcams in intricate and unexpected ways to create this lo-fi music video for their song "Hibi no Neiro." We promise you'll crack a small, satisfied smile.

This unbelievable papercraft project, by Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create and features lights and a moving train. It's probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture we've ever seen.